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Pint-sized pickup startup Telo Trucks adds Tesla co-founder to board as interest grows from fleet customers

The young automotive company raised $5.4 million and added a Tesla co-founder to its board.

Y Combinator President Garry Tan publishes a menacing tweet before deleting it, apologizing: ‘Die slow motherf*ckers’

Garry Tan, whose success in Silicon Valley has likely inspired many of the founders he mentors, is once again attracting attention for his posts on the social platform X. On Friday night, the Y Combin

OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots

The race to perfect the humanoid form factor will be one of 2024’s defining tech stories. Last year saw the category heat up, as companies like Tesla, Apptronik and Figure debuted their systems, whi

Peak XV invests $35 million in wealth and asset management startup Neo

Peak XV Partners has invested $35 million in Neo, a fintech startup founded by industry veterans that is increasingly challenging incumbents including IIFL, Edelweiss and Waterfield Advisors, as the

Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately?

Y Combinator has been on the defensive as of late. This past weekend, leaders from the popular accelerator were vocal on X (formerly known as Twitter) in their reaction to a comment made by the CEO of

VC firm Neo looks to up the ante with $235M across two new funds

Neo, a six-year-old, Bay Area–based outfit founded by renowned serial entrepreneur and investor Ali Partovi, is announcing that it has garnered $235 million in capital commitments across two new fun

Expedock cinches Series A to grow its freight paperwork management platform

Since the start of the pandemic, the global supply chain has undergone — and is undergoing — immense strain. As of late last month, there were more than 300 ships in China waiting to load

Ali Partovi has a new accelerator promising to connect founders with star engineers

Ali Partovi prides himself on the many relationships he has built throughout Silicon Valley as a highly successful entrepreneur and investor. For example, two years ago, Partovi launched a program thr

Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps

Product developers want to use AI, but don't always have the right tools to do it without relying on data scientists.

Goodcall picks up $4M, Yelp partnership to answer merchant inbound calls

Goodcall’s free cloud-based conversational platform leverages artificial intelligence to manage incoming business phone calls and boost customer service while assisting to other patrons.

Newly funded OfficeTogether looks to help employees return to work safely

Amy Yin doesn’t foresee startups resuming a five-day-a-week in-office work schedule, even after COVID-19 has been battled back. It’s probably a safe bet. Many companies have learned this y

Neo’s Ali Partovi on best practices for hiring early-stage startup engineers

On day one of TechCrunch’s Early Stage virtual conference, Ali Partovi joined us to discuss best practices for startups looking to hire engineers. It’s a subject that’s near and dear to his hear

The rise of the new crypto “mafias”

Ash Egan Contributor Ash Egan leads crypto investing at Accomplice. He formerly was a VC at ConsenSys Ventures and Converge. In the early 2000s, journalists popularized the term “PayPal mafia&#8

Another crypto exchange goes old school as KuCoin raises $20M from VCs

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: One of the biggest trends in crypto this year is companies raising money the old-fashioned way — through venture capitalists. Hot on the he

Tokens can better incentivize startup employees than equity

Token structuring and tokeneconomics are among of the most important considerations when designing a blockchain. When thinking about how best to distribute these tokens, founders often think about how

The collapse of ETH is inevitable

Jeremy Rubin Contributor Share on X Jeremy Rubin is currently a technical advisor to Stellar, a Bitcoin Core Contributor, investor and advisor to early-stage crypto startups, starting a company for Bi

Neo, a new ‘communal’ venture fund by Ali Partovi, has closed with $80 million

It happens every day of the week. People who’ve been successful in tech invest in who they believe could be the tech leaders of tomorrow. Now a new fund called Neo is taking the idea to the nth

The new age of ICOs is here, and it’s not based on Ethereum

ICOs are said to be the new way to raise money. We’ve seen companies raising millions by selling tokens. Against the money raised, the tokens they gave were created and sold on the Ethereum blockcha

Affordable Car Loans: A Look At The Winner(s) Of The Founder Showcase Pitch Competition

Last night, over 500 people gathered in San Francisco for the eighth <a href="http://foundershowcase.com">Founder Showcase</a>, a quarterly startup pitch event that brings together technology CEOs, in

Mother Russia plans to save us all from killer asteroid

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/armageddon1.jpg">Someone call Bruce Willis. Russia announced Wednesday that they are considering launching a spacecraft with the intentio
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